RE: A Push For Alternative Treatments To Deal With PTSD
The conventional treatment for PTSD in returning soldiers, is to make it as bad as possible. Time is of the essence. Therefore, the VA puts them on a very long waiting list to see a psychiatrist. After they begin to see the psychiatrist, they will either waste their time talking, or the psych will attempt to make everything worse through retraumitizing the soldier without having any plan to help rebuild after the bombing run.
Most of the mindfulness techniques work with PTSD. It is an emotional trauma, and so often the person needs to go back into their childhood to clear the pain from childhood, that was the weakness where PTSD implanted itself.
Cannibis has been known to help, as long as they are already working on mindfulness. Also hypnosis. And PTSD support groups, as long as they are a good group. (as opposed to a psych student who runs things for themselves and doesn't allow man-man bonds by controlling the dialog...)
These implants scare me. They are just using soldiers as 6 foot tall lab rats. They do not know enough about the brain to do anything good in there. Basically, it looks like if the heart rate surges, they blast the brain, like you would play a loud noise into the earphones. Yep, it will distract you from what you where doing/experiencing, but it will more likely give you another PTSD.